Home Introduction What is an ostracod? World species list Southern Ocean list About the authors Bibliography Acknowledgements Links Last updated 14 March 2008 Southern Ocean list > Metaconchoecia australis > Notes Metaconchoecia australis Drawings   Maps Download species PDF Metaconchoecia australis (Gooday, 1981) Records: 45 Gooday (1981) described this species as a Conchoecia australis from old Discovery material from the Southern Ocean when he substantially revised the 'skogsbergi' complex. Since then there have been few studies in which the authors have attempted to discriminate this small species from the juveniles of what are now classified as Metaconchoecia species. It appears to be a Southern Ocean endemic with a circumpolar distribution. Its apparently disjunct distribution is probably an artifact, resulting from its confusion with juveniles of M. skogsbergi. In their revision of the genus Metaconchoecia, establishing a new tribe the Metaconchoeciinae, which they divide into ten genera, Chavtur and Angel (in press) retain this species in the genus Metaconchoecia.   n Mean mm s.d. Range mm Female 38 1.05 0.042 0.98-1.10 Male 10 1.01 0.026 1.00-1.06 A-1 11 0.80 0.044 0.72-0.88 A-2 3 0.62 - 0.62